Section - B Grammar And Creative Writing Skills (20 marks)
III. Complete ANY TEN of the twelve of the following tasks, as directed: (10 marks)
1.Read the given sentence from an article on agriculture. Identify the error and supply the
correction in the sentence.
Agriculture policies should be put into place to limit the export of water-intensive crops. Use the
given format for your response.
Use the given format for your response.
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2.Fill in the blank by using the correct form of the word in the bracket, for the given portion of
a letter.
Dear Sir
Kindly ensure that the order will be replaced latest by 20 October 20XX, failing which payment will
be stopped or the order _________ (to be) cancelled from our end.
Yours faithfully
XYZ (General Manager)
Dear Sir
3.Read the response of a doctor given below and supply the question asked by his patient
Shelley.
Doctor: Just take one pill a day about 30 minutes before you go to bed.
4.Read the dialogue between a doctor and a patient and report their conversation by filling up
the blank with suitable options.
Doctor: Hello, what is your problem?
Patient: Doctor, I have a problem with not getting proper sleep at night.
When a doctor greeted a patient and asked him _________, the patient answered that he had a
problem with not getting proper sleep at night.
(i) What is his problem
(ii) what was his problem
(iii) what his problem was
(iv) if he had a problem
5.Select an appropriate word given in the bracket and fill in the following introductory line of
an article on how to navigate personal relationships.
The experiences that contribute to our well-being are often amplified __________ (within/ through)
our relationships with our families.
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6.Identify the error and supply correction for the given sentence from the Indian government's
current marketing strategy to boost tourism.
The Indian government and the WTTC have chalked off measures to benefit the traveller by endowing
him with less risk and more confidence.
Use the given format for your response.
Error Correc on
7.Select the option that identifies the error and supplies the correction for the following line,
from a news report.
Acclimatization is the reason why heat waves in cooler places, or heat waves early in summer, are
likely to be more deadlier than the same conditions in hotter places or later in summer.
Option no Error Correction
(I) Cooler Colder
(ii) Or And
(iii) More deadlier Deadlier
(iv) Conditions Condition
8.Complete the given narrative, by filling in the blank with the correct option.
Large paintings of deities and Maratha rulers, as well as their courtiers and aristocracy, were painted
in Maratha palaces and buildings _________ architectural accents.
(i) to serve as
(ii) to counter
(iii) to intimate
(iv) To play down
9.Report the dialogue between Anju who is looking for her brother and Ravi, by completing t h
e sentence.
Anju: Did you see my brother today?
Ravi: I cannot remember precisely but I think he went to meet Sumit.
Anju asked Ravi ________ to which Ravi replied that he could not remember precisely but he thought
he had gone to meet Sumit.
10.Fill in the blank by choosing the correct option to complete the live feed on television.
Because old-growth forests in the United States .................., citizens must act now!
(i) were fast disappearing
(ii) will be fast disappearing
(iii) are fast disappearing
(iv) must be fast disappearing
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11.Complete the stanza of a famous poem 'Daffodils', by filling the blank with the correct
option.
For oft when on my couch I . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils
(i) lay
(ii) laid
(iii) lied
(iv) lie
12. Identify the error and supply correction in the following advertisement of a consumer
product.
DENTOWHITE MAKES YOUR TEETH WHITER AND GUMS STRONGER FOR THE
SUPER WHITE AND SUPER BRIGHT SMILE, BUY TODAY!
Use the given format for your response.
Error Correction
